Community Statement
University of Jamestown is a community. Such a community offers an environment that allows individuals to develop their full potential. To that end, the University has created a set of standards regarding personal conduct within this community. Personal responsibility and respect for others are the key values underlying these standards. Teaching students to accept responsibility for their behavior and to respect the rights of others is a high priority for our University community.
The University holds the belief that students become more productive when they have adopted these values. One of our responsibilities is to challenge behaviors that violate the rights of others or which violate the laws of the larger society. By holding each student to a high standard of behavior, we both protect the campus community and promote the moral and ethical development of students. In doing so, we also have an obligation to regard each student as an individual, deserving individual attention, consideration and respect.
There are times when the University must exercise its responsibility to the community by suspending or expelling a student who has violated the UJ Standards of Conduct. Behavior which is prohibited by these standards is outlined in this Handbook. These standards arise from the key values of personal responsibility and respect for others. By presenting these to you, we hope to begin a process which will lead to your support of the guidelines and the values upon which they are based.
We believe that the educational focus of our institution will be served best by a serious commitment to helping students develop responsible personal attitudes and behavior. We feel it is our responsibility to establish behavioral guidelines which are stated clearly and to define the consequences for those acts outside these guidelines. We intend to fulfill this goal by making these guidelines and consequences well known to all members of our community.
It is our hope that the response to these expectations will be a positive one which enables our community to better achieve its educational mission and to affirm the wholeness of that mission, inside and outside of the classroom.